North Carolina Woman Poses for Picture with Eric Trump, Expertly Trolls Him

He really had no idea.

By
Dianne de Guzman

Oct 24, 2016

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The photo probably seemed like a good idea, at the time.

Eric Trump, son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, was in Salisbury, N.C., on Friday for a rally. Sisters Annie and Ceci Cardelle decided to attend... while having a little fun with the crowd.

Annie Cardelle, 23, went to the event wearing a T-shirt with the words "Latina Contra Trump" written in marker across the front. For those not well-versed in Spanish (and this includes you, Eric Trump), "contra" means "against."

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"I'm not exactly protesting his conservative ideology, but it's more about his speech and like his rhetoric that he uses to describe Hispanics and Latinos and just people of color in general," Annie Cardelle told the Salisbury Post. "In his speeches, he brings up people killed by immigrants, which there's no basis that immigrants kill people more than everyday citizens. So, he's contemplating that immigrants, and specifically Mexican and Hispanic immigrants, are criminals and murdering people."

The two sisters fell in line to meet and take photos with Trump and his wife Lara Trump. When they made their way to the front of the line, they posed for photos with the couple.

Apparently no one on the Trump staff realized what was happening, including Eric and Lara Trump. Annie Cardelle took to Twitter to post her prized photo, writing, "No one at the rally realized my shirt said AGAINST tr*mp... congrats, y'all played yourselves."

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No one at the rally realized my shirt said AGAINST tr*mp... congrats, y'all played yourselves ✌🏽️✌🏽️✌🏽️ pic.twitter.com/qZ3x1ER8j0

The two sisters are second-generation Americans of Cuban descent, as Buzzfeed noted, and Annie Cardelle was the one came up with the idea of the shirt.

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"It's been almost two years of Trump continuously putting down Latinos, making us feel like we don't belong. So, my whole thing was to go there and say, 'I'm Latina and we're against you because of what you say about our race,'" Annie Cardelle told the news site.

"We're American citizens, our parents are American citizens, and our grandparents are American citizens," Ceci Cardelle told the Salisbury Post. "It's this whole idea that you don't really belong here, in this country, and that you're not from here. We're supposed to go back to where we are from, but we've lived here our whole lives."

The tweet and photos from Annie Cardelle has been liked over 11,000 times since it was first posted on Friday, and has been retweeted over 6,500 times, as well.

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